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When I first heard the term servant leadership, I focused on servant, which conjures images of someone passing hors d'oeuvres at a party. As a servant leader myself, how can I be the guy handing out the snacks and also lead a team of software engineers, analysts, and testers?

In our organization we have been using Scrum in small pockets, mostly for software development, for about three years. I was recently asked to become a product owner for some in-house network-tool development efforts, which led to interesting outcomes.